Lee, an Oak Flats junior, and Wests Illawarra product Jaques will join fellow Australian representatives Nathan Bracken and Nathan Hauritz in the three-day, six-match tournament being hosted by a Country Association for the first time.

Games will be played at Croome Road Oval (The Rail), Geoff Shaw Oval (Oak Flats) and Keith Grey Oval (Albion Park).

Four teams - Sydney Gold, Sydney Red, the ACT and NSW Country - will play in the tournament, a traditional pre-season warm-up for Blues squad members.

Jaques will play for Sydney Gold, while Lee is certain to be named for NSW Country today.

Sydney Red will be headlined by Hauritz, while Australian keeper Brad Haddin is expected to line up for the ACT.

However, fellow Test stars Michael Clarke, Simon Katich and Stuart Clark are no certainties to appear in the event.

South Coast cricket publicity officer Bruce Babcock said Lee and Jacques were certainties for the first two days of the event, although the Australian squad is scheduled to leave for India on Sunday.

Babcock agreed the event would help make up for Illawarra losing the Ford Ranger Cup clash scheduled for North Dalton Park in November.

"This will certainly make up for that," Babcock said. "There will be some talented players here - 99 per cent of them are contracted to Cricket NSW."